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It reveals a people who, without shedding a drop of blood, calmly and deliberately abolished one government, substituted another, and erected it upon foundations which have hitherto proved enduring.
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Beck reflects on the peaceful transition from one government to another in American history, emphasizing the stability of the new government.
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The consequence is that again and again we are running the risk of perpetrating the most grotesque errors of judgment, of committing the most serious political blunders, in defiance of American public opinion.
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
To this we owe the elasticity of the instrument.
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